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Copyright and Fair Use

The Library offers some guidelines to faculty in this statement on copyright and fair use.

Saint Mary’s College expects its faculty, staff and students to promote and abide by ethical standards in their teaching and learning practices as evidenced through academic scholarship. In an effort to support the College goal of ethical integrity in our scholarly pursuits, the Graduate & Professional Studies Educational Policies Committee, in collaboration with the Library, has created this resource's page. These resources are provided to assist the community to better understand the issues of Copyright and Fair Use as they apply to our academic activities.

Stanford has developed this excellent website with resources to help their faculty, students & staff interpret copyright and fair use. This links to an overview of the topic with content provided by Nolo Press, primarily based on the book, Getting Permission (2010) by Richard Stim.

This little gem is part of the Stanford University Libraries Copyright and Fair Use website that links the user to tools available via the web to help assess fair use. It also provides links to the stellar Codes of Best Practices series found at Center for Social Media at American University that tackles issues about the use of multimedia.

Annually, Stanford highlights changes and emerging issues for their faculty, staff & students. This document highlights copyright and fair use as they pertain to multimedia, peer to peer file sharing, podcasting and several other topics.

The American Library Association has a nice set of links to general information about copyright & fair use and more specifically, information about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, court cases, interpretative articles and tools to assess fair use.

This links to the U. S. Copyright office with information on Distance Education and the Teach Act. It contains legislative information as well as practical interpretation for distance education instructors.